“Have you sat by his lordship’s side, my child?
And every blandishment tried, my child?
Have you heaved deep sighs
And looked in his eyes?
And adroitly flattered his pride my child?”
“O yes, and I’ve done even more, Mamma:
Things I never have done before, Mamma;
For I fainted quite,
In his arms last night,
As we stood on the sea-girt shore, Mamma!”